pleaaase let us get an anti-joyce moment! but in all seriousness, I feel joyce is strong, but there is evidence to prove that she is breaking down a bit since she came to college. It’s not as extreme as it was at first , so I won’t say shes a time bomb just yet but…damn that fuse is loooooong

I’m kinda relieved to see that this didn’t just spin off into a “mock Joyce and how ‘absurd’ everything she believes is” type of a thing. They’re both genuinely concerned about her, and it just makes them that much more … accessible … as characters?

Remember yesterday when I said Sarah was being a dick? (Probably not). But still, she’s much better here. Maybe judging behavior one strip at a time isn’t healthy, since there’s only about three sentences out of a lifetime of sentences per strip.

This is a good point. I was also getting a bad vibe from the last strip…still kinda am? (Not that I think it was badly written, just that it makes me nervous for Joyce and Sarah’s relationship, which seems to be getting some attention in this storyline.). But this strip definitely comes off as less dire.

Write a strip where Amazi-Girl says “A Human Being Should Be Able to Enjoy Butts Without Shame”. Best of both worlds. You’re kind of omnipotent in this scenario, Willis. They are but puppets dancing on your strings, making drama happen at your merest whim, never knowing that their free will is a sham.

You think it’s funny because you assume women are ‘naturally’ adverse to sex to begin with, are generally incapable of violence, and wouldn’t view forcing sexual contact on another person as the taking of power and the debasement of the victim that it truly is. You are also probably of the mindset that a man, a REAL man, could not be raped… especially not by a woman, and any that are would be weak little ‘pussies’ for not being able to easily fend off unwanted female advances, or they secretly wanted and just ‘regretted’ sticking it in them afterwards.

I suppose in the context of ANY of those being even remotely true, and not based stereotype and general fantasy, it possibly could be funny… However, since none of that is except in the minds of asshats like ‘Brian’ (I think that was the character’s name… He’s the guy who got face-glassed and then beaten with a bat for trying to rape Joyce), whom I’m hoping Willis expands on later as being kidnapped by DoA’s version of Jigsaw and getting mutilated to death, or eaten by fireants. I’m not picky.

But the point I’m trying to make here is what you said is pretty fucked up and no, it wasn’t funny in the least bit, and you should seriously consider why you thought it was to begin with.

I hate to always be on the bad side of these arguments, but I don’t believe in the notion of shaming someone for their sense of humor. Most humor is based not on how they think things should be, but by an almost uncontrollable notion of something which someone finds absurd, silly, or otherwise.
I don’t want to hurt people, kill them, fart on them, sneeze in their food, Drop Anvils on them, or otherwise demoralize them, but I also have a dark sense of humor.
Saying something “isn’t funny” is a matter of perspective. There is no law to declare what is funny and what isn’t. Only what is just and what isn’t. And it’s a thin line when it comes to humor what is awful to find humorous or entertaining and what is offensive. Just because you don’t have a dark sense of humor doesn’t mean you should make an otherwise kind person to feel bad about it. (not that I know if newllend is a nice person, but They like Luffy so they can’t be all bad.)

I’m curious as to why humor is something people cannot be shamed for? Like out of all the things we judge people for, why shouldn’t humor be included? What someone finds appropriate to laugh at can actually be very revealing.

Well, I think it’s rude to make rape jokes? I’m not saying this person is horrible, but they did say something horrible (which they seem to have realized). Should people just ignore it when someone says something harmful?

And I’m gonna go ahead and say that rape jokes are significantly different than jokes about farting, sneezing in someone’s food, and cartoonish violence. In fact, rape jokes are significantly different than jokes about murder. Survivors are actively shamed and silenced by the world around us, and sexual violence is incredibly common. ‘Rape jokes’ use this pain as a punch line, and contribute to the callous and indifferent treatment of survivors.

I do think Rape jokes are pretty rude to tell in polite company unless you are very aware of your audience. Personally, not a fan. But hey. I can’t bear to make anyone feel like less of a person. It hurts my heart.

I feel pretty comfortable with calling a rape joke of that nature horrible. I don’t see how a joke that mocks sexual assault isn’t horrible?
I don’t understand why you’re so motivated to defend a joke about rape, particular when the person who said it has apologized??

look I’m sorry ok, for pissing you off and anybody else I might of upset , I regretted posting that the minute after I put it on there, its not funny not at all and I’m an insensitive ass thinking it was at the moment,but thats wasn’t my mind at all, you dont need to take my apologie but I’m going to admit plain and simple that was a mistake.

i think i understand not specifically in relation to dark humor. Usually with me its either sexual innuendo and stopping myself and saying aloud “yeah not gonna say that one” or plotting the despair and demise on my fellow human being at which point I almost always think ” this is a d-bag idea and I’m not Mike so no”

Verily, Super Duper does delight in toothsome rumps of appreciable volume! Prevaricate he surely cannot!
Hark! You other figurative male siblings are utterly incapable of any form of denial, oh doltish dullards!
For, when a winsome wench does perambulate forth before you besporting not merely a midriff of exceedingly miniscule dimensions, but also flaunting an entity Callipygian of overwhelmingly orbiculate character before your very face, then soon bekindled unto your loins is a raging inferno of direst arousal!
For, luckiest of mortals, you have borne awestruck witness to the incontrovertible fact that the well-upholstered rump in question was bounteously plethoric and chockiblockily surifeted! (Or in words other, stuffed.)
The blazing-eyed devilgoat finds himself ensnared within the denimy depths of wenchly tight-clinging pantaloons!

There are a few little things, like him not minding working out nearly naked in their shared room, which implies either a very big level of comfort around a gay guy or he doesn’t know, but I’d say a more telling comic might be:

I think it’s less about the technology than the fact that it’s taken this long for the skeeviness of humanity to become this bold and overt. While perhaps a bit less convenient, snapping covert upskirt photos has been possible for at least forty years.

That said, I can forgive the court for being a bit slow to act on this one, because how in the hell do you write a law that illegalizes the photography of strangers’ panties in a country where miniskirts are legal and people sit down now and then? You could break the law, repeatedly, by taking pictures of your kid in the public park when some lady is sitting on a park bench in the background. Have fun proving your innocence of that one.